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Free Agency thread for Raiders and league-wide
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2026 11:02 am
by RunOverByHubbard
Free agency opens March 11. CBS Sports has their top 50 ranking. No Raiders on the list. I am surprised at a couple rated high - Aaron Rodgers and Daniel Jones. Lots of wide receivers
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/earl ... ng-top-50/
Re: Free Agency main thread -Raiders and league wide
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2026 1:55 pm
by Hellbound
chucker wrote: Fri Mar 20, 2026 12:30 pm
Still rehabbing his foot??!?! More like rehabbing his image
Re: Free Agency main thread -Raiders and league wide
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2026 4:48 pm
by FlyBono24
chucker wrote: Fri Mar 20, 2026 12:30 pm
Not sure this is accurate. 26 teams? Doesn't the UFL only have 8 teams?
Re: Free Agency main thread -Raiders and league wide
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2026 5:40 pm
by chucker
FlyBono24 wrote: Fri Mar 20, 2026 4:48 pm
Not sure this is accurate. 26 teams? Doesn't the UFL only have 8 teams?
I'm sure at least 26 teams are willing to talk about a minimum salary contract. This seems like a tweet put out by Schefter in exchange for getting inside info - "I talk big about your weird client, and you give me the first scoop at a later date". There's a ton of that in the NFL information business.
Re: Free Agency main thread -Raiders and league wide
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2026 7:59 am
by chucker
Re: Free Agency main thread -Raiders and league wide
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2026 8:29 am
by Deejgoettel
chucker wrote: Fri Mar 20, 2026 12:30 pm
If someone DOES sign him to a big new deal, will that affect either the amount of money we still owe him and/or the Raider’s dead cap hit?
Re: Free Agency main thread -Raiders and league wide
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2026 9:24 am
by KillerRaider30
Deejgoettel wrote: Sat Mar 21, 2026 8:29 am
If someone DOES sign him to a big new deal, will that affect either the amount of money we still owe him and/or the Raider’s dead cap hit?
Nope. The Raiders are paying him 29.7M and thats guaranteed and is the dead cap hit this year. Anything he makes this year doesn't effect what the Raiders are paying him.
If Wilkins wins his case the Raiders we'll owe him an additional 22M which is his non-guaranteed salary. How that fits into the cap idk.
Corrections welcome.
Re: Free Agency main thread -Raiders and league wide
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2026 9:35 am
by chucker
All of Wilkins' dead money relates to signing bonus already paid. There are no offsets for that, so if he signs with another team then there are still no cap savings to the Raiders related to that dead money. The one thing that could have an impact would be if Wilkins' wins his grievance, which would result in the Raiders paying him some cash for the 2026 season - if that happened then there might be offsets to those liabilities arising from the grievance.
It's too nebulous and uncertain to worry about right now but the grievance process will be interesting.
Re: Free Agency main thread -Raiders and league wide
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2026 1:12 pm
by Arsenal Raider
raider_kin wrote: Fri Mar 20, 2026 7:08 am
I don't blame Telesco for Wilkins, nobody saw that one coming, just like nobody saw Ruggs happening.
I saw that one coming, but nobody else seemed to. Got roasted online at the time for vehemently opposing the Wilkins signing.
The Ruggs incident was nearly impossible to see coming though, had no idea.
Re: Free Agency main thread -Raiders and league wide
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2026 1:19 pm
by DanKD
Arsenal Raider wrote: Sat Mar 21, 2026 1:12 pm
I saw that one coming, but nobody else seemed to. Got roasted online at the time for vehemently opposing the Wilkins signing.
The Ruggs incident was nearly impossible to see coming though, had no idea.
You were right. That should be a lesson not to ignore a player who constantly tries to finger others players bums on the field
Re: Free Agency main thread -Raiders and league wide
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2026 1:29 pm
by mstrbass2000
Hellbound wrote: Fri Mar 20, 2026 1:55 pm
Still rehabbing his foot??!?! More like rehabbing his image
robbed the raiders and took off 2 yrs rehabbing...i wanna see what this guys gets on his next contract with his rep being mud currently
Re: Free Agency main thread -Raiders and league wide
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2026 8:33 am
by mstrbass2000
Seahawks signed WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba to a four-year, $168.6 million contract extension.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter was the first to report the deal. The 2025 NFL Offensive Player of the Year and Super Bowl Champion will sign the richest contract extension for a receiver in NFL history, which includes $120 million in guaranteed money. JSN is coming off back-to-back 100-catch seasons and went for 119-1,793-10 last season while averaging a career-high 15.1 YPR, and came up big in the playoffs, scoring twice in three playoff games on the way to a Super Bowl title. This extension comes just days after the Seahawks exercised JSN’s fifth-year option and will now keep him under contract through 2031.
Re: Free Agency main thread -Raiders and league wide
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2026 11:18 pm
by rich72
mstrbass2000 wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 8:33 am
Seahawks signed WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba to a four-year, $168.6 million contract extension.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter was the first to report the deal. The 2025 NFL Offensive Player of the Year and Super Bowl Champion will sign the richest contract extension for a receiver in NFL history, which includes $120 million in guaranteed money. JSN is coming off back-to-back 100-catch seasons and went for 119-1,793-10 last season while averaging a career-high 15.1 YPR, and came up big in the playoffs, scoring twice in three playoff games on the way to a Super Bowl title. This extension comes just days after the Seahawks exercised JSN’s fifth-year option and will now keep him under contract through 2031.
I think its actually like a 6 year contract, hes going into his 4th year and they picked up his 5th year option, so its not as crazy as it looks.
Re: Free Agency main thread -Raiders and league wide
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2026 6:36 am
by heavyD
KillerRaider30 wrote: Sat Mar 21, 2026 9:24 am
Nope. The Raiders are paying him 29.7M and thats guaranteed and is the dead cap hit this year. Anything he makes this year doesn't effect what the Raiders are paying him.
If Wilkins wins his case the Raiders we'll owe him an additional 22M which is his non-guaranteed salary. How that fits into the cap idk.
Corrections welcome.
I don’t know all of the details but I assume most of this boils down to his questionable conduct with other players but what about the fact that the Raiders wanted him to have surgery but he disagreed and almost a year later is still rehabbing? There has to be something in contract language when it comes to players unable to play long term due to not following team doctor recommendations.
Re: Free Agency main thread -Raiders and league wide
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2026 7:12 am
by Marzan
Arsenal Raider wrote: Sat Mar 21, 2026 1:12 pm
I saw that one coming, but nobody else seemed to. Got roasted online at the time for vehemently opposing the Wilkins signing.
The Ruggs incident was nearly impossible to see coming though, had no idea.
Yeah the Ruggs thing was one of those unexpected things that just hits us Raider fans more often than other franchises for some reason (think Barrett Robbins, Gruden’s emails, etc).
Re: Free Agency main thread -Raiders and league wide
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2026 8:59 am
by Goodtimes333
Ruggs was already one of the very best deep threats in the whole league, legitimately. He had good hands too. What a kick in the balls